HP Proliant ML110 G6 won't boot with a unsupported CPU.

[tokafondo]

Hi. I successfully modded the Phoenix (new style) BIOS of a HP Proliant ML110 G6 server, with new microcodes.

But it won't boot unsupported CPU.



I'm not talking about a better CPU but a worse one.

It does boot with a Core i7-860.

I does not boot with a Core i3-550.

The service and manteinance guide lists the Core i3-540 cpu as supported but not the -550.

As I said, I updated the microcodes. Is there any place in the BIOS where I should be looking for a list of supported CPUs?

Thanks.

[DeathBringer]

Post screenshots of first (CPU) & third (Mainboard) tabs of CPU-Z with supported CPU.
Explain exactly what happens when you try to boot with your i3-550 CPU.

[tokafondo]

Post screenshots of first (CPU) & third (Mainboard) tabs of CPU-Z with supported CPU.
Explain exactly what happens when you try to boot with your i3-550 CPU.

   
   

What happens is: When I put the i3-550, the board won't boot while there are this beep codes sequence: 1-1-1-2.

But with touching nothing more than swapping the CPU for the i7-860, the board boots fine.

Sometimes and I say: sometimes, the board does boot with the i3-550, but when I reboot it by software or turn in off and on again, it boots no more, with those beeps.

Also, this is what MCE gives before and after modding my BIOS:

BEFORE:

Code:

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║         MC Extractor v1.38.0 r131 Dev         ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

ML110G6.rom (1/1)

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║                                      Intel                                       ║
╠───┬───────┬─────────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────┬────────┬─────────┬──────╣
║ # │ CPUID │ Platform ID │ Revision │    Date    │ Type │  Size  │  Offset │ Last ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 1 │ 106E1 │  13 (0,1,4) │ FFFF000D │ 2009-02-06 │ PRE  │ 0x3000 │ 0xA0020 │ Yes  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 2 │ 106E3 │  13 (0,1,4) │ D107090A │ 2009-05-04 │ PRE  │ 0x4400 │ 0xA3020 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 3 │ 106E5 │  13 (0,1,4) │    3     │ 2009-05-29 │ PRD  │ 0x1800 │ 0xA7820 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 4 │ 20650 │  13 (0,1,4) │ FFFF0006 │ 2008-12-18 │ PRE  │ 0xC00  │ 0xA9020 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 5 │ 20651 │  13 (0,1,4) │ FFFF0012 │ 2009-07-23 │ PRE  │ 0x1400 │ 0xAA020 │ Yes  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 6 │ 20652 │   12 (1,4)  │    C     │ 2010-06-10 │ PRD  │ 0x1C00 │ 0xAB820 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 7 │ 20655 │  92 (1,4,7) │    2     │ 2010-03-01 │ PRD  │ 0x800  │ 0xAD820 │  No  ║
╚═══╩═══════╩═════════════╩══════════╩════════════╩══════╩════════╩═════════╩══════╝

AFTER:

Code:

╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║         MC Extractor v1.38.0 r131 Dev         ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝

ML110G6_SLIC.rom (1/1)

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║                                      Intel                                       ║
╠───┬───────┬─────────────┬──────────┬────────────┬──────┬────────┬─────────┬──────╣
║ # │ CPUID │ Platform ID │ Revision │    Date    │ Type │  Size  │  Offset │ Last ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 1 │ 20652 │   12 (1,4)  │    11    │ 2018-05-08 │ PRD  │ 0x2400 │ 0xA0020 │ Yes  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 2 │ 20655 │  92 (1,4,7) │    7     │ 2018-04-23 │ PRD  │ 0x1000 │ 0xA3020 │ Yes  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 3 │ 106E5 │  13 (0,1,4) │    3     │ 2009-05-29 │ PRD  │ 0x1800 │ 0xA7820 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 4 │ 20650 │  13 (0,1,4) │ FFFF0006 │ 2008-12-18 │ PRE  │ 0xC00  │ 0xA9020 │  No  ║
╠───┼───────┼─────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────────┼──────╣
║ 5 │ 20651 │  13 (0,1,4) │ FFFF0012 │ 2009-07-23 │ PRE  │ 0x1400 │ 0xAA020 │ Yes  ║
╚═══╩═══════╩═════════════╩══════════╩════════════╩══════╩════════╩═════════╩══════╝

[DeathBringer]

the board won't boot while there are this beep codes sequence: 1-1-1-2.

What's in terms long & short beeps?

Make a screenshot of regedit with expanded key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0 when you can boot with your i3-550.